Pros And Cons Of Drinking Age

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Drinking alcohol habits among adults has been a part of life but for all young people, this could not be right. In my own experience and in the environment I grow up with, I don’t remember that there was a strict age limit for drinking. It’s the parent’s responsibility to guide their children and educate them about bad alcohol drinking habit, since more bad things happen after people getting drunk because of irresponsibility and negligence. It believes that responsibility goes with the age. It also believed that the older your age, the mature you get but in my own opinion it doesn’t apply to all people though. Still, there are some who can’t limit their drinking which led them to terrible drinking problem, accidents and worst jailing time. I think this topic should be explored more since there are lots of lives involve in this case. Even innocent people are victims of alcohol abuse done by other reckless people. So setting an age limit should lessen the devastating effect of too much alcohol drinking. It might not totally help or completely stop the crime brought by alcohol abuse but having a law will discipline all civilians. According to the law of United States of America, 21 is the legal age to allow alcohol drinking. Although, …show more content…

The enactment of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 required states to increase to 21 as the legal age for all people in buying alcohol publicly or will never receive millions of funds for federal highway(Drinking Age ProCon.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 July

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